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Mechanical Sound : Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Inside Technology SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (363 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262268547
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mechanical SoundDDC classification:
  • 620.2
LOC classification:
  • TD892.B548 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Preface -- 1 Listening to Technology -- 2 Infernal Din, Heavenly Tunes: Repertoires of Dramatizing Sound -- 3 A Continuous Buzz: The Ongoing Charge of Industrial Noise -- 4 Instruments of Torture: Traffic Noise as Uncivilized Behavior -- 5 The Art of Noises: The Celebration and Control of Mechanical Sound in Music -- 6 A Wall of Sound: The Gramophone, the Radio, and the Noise of Neighbors -- 7 A Booming Business: The Search for a Practical Aircraft Noise Index -- 8 A Sound History of Technological Culture -- Notes -- References -- Series List -- Index.
Summary: Tracing efforts to control unwanted sound--the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft--from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century.
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Intro -- Preface -- 1 Listening to Technology -- 2 Infernal Din, Heavenly Tunes: Repertoires of Dramatizing Sound -- 3 A Continuous Buzz: The Ongoing Charge of Industrial Noise -- 4 Instruments of Torture: Traffic Noise as Uncivilized Behavior -- 5 The Art of Noises: The Celebration and Control of Mechanical Sound in Music -- 6 A Wall of Sound: The Gramophone, the Radio, and the Noise of Neighbors -- 7 A Booming Business: The Search for a Practical Aircraft Noise Index -- 8 A Sound History of Technological Culture -- Notes -- References -- Series List -- Index.

Tracing efforts to control unwanted sound--the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft--from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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